"Challenging Fiction" is a double entendre. This unusual book argues that modernist fiction is not only difficult )or challenging( to read, it also provokes readers to challenge the fictions that they live by. To read modernist literature in a way that unlocks its humor, its discomfiting insights, and its strong emotional undercurrents, a reader must be both receptive and resistant to the author's perspective, actively challenging it with his or her own experience, knowledge, and sensibilities. Using writers as diverse as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Djuna Barnes, Oscar Wilde, and Jean Rhys, this book demonstrates that the rewards of "challenging fiction" are considerable, and unexpected.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Malden; Oxford
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Blackwell
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2007
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
xxi, 242 p. ; 24 cm.
يادداشت کلی
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Includes bibliographical references )p. ]226[-230( and index
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ISBN-10: 0631213074
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ISBN-13: 9780631213079
یادداشتهای مربوط به عنوان و پدیدآور
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Vicki Mahaffey
یادداشت های مربوط به نسخه اصلی
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1
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
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Why read challenging literature? -- Partnering: Holmes and Watson, author and reader, lover and loved, man and wife -- Window painting: the art of blocking understanding -- Watchman, what of the night?
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
عنصر شناسه ای
History and criticism Theory, etc ، English fiction - 02th century
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History and criticism Theory, etc ، American fiction - 02th century
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، Modernism )Literature( - English-speaking countries
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Appreciation ، Fiction - English-speaking countries
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، Books and reading - English-speaking countries
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، Authors and readers
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، Reader-response criticism
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
PR
888
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M63
M35
2007
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )